30 DECEMBER 1966, page 19

Novels

Facts and Fantasies Will o' the Wisp. By Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. (Calder and Boyars, 27s. 6d.) Pornografia. By Witold Gombrowicz. (Calder and Boyars, 30s.) For Love Alone. By......

Fixities And Definites

By JOHN HOLLOWAY INCE one of our favourite intellectual opastimes is the assiduous laying of Long- Dead Spectres, and we never lack conscientious persons to warn us off......

It's A Crime

The Case of the Spurious Spinster, by Erle Stanley Gardner (Heinemann, 18s.). The inde- fatigable Perry Mason is briefed by an attrac- tive secretary to the manager of a mining......